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"No nation is older than 250" (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A threads post saying "There has never been another nation ever that has existed much beyond 250 years. Not a single one. America's 250th year is 2025. The next 4 years are gonna be pretty interesting considering everything that's already been said." It has a reply saying "My local pub is older than your country".

Edit: swapped image link, RIP lemm.ee

Original link: https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/b4d2f599-1922-4978-9db3-fc7832681c10.png

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Remember the time we stumbled on an old local church with an American coworker. Yes dude, that thing was over 500 years old when Columbus discovered your continent, allegedly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Columbus didn't even travel to north america, he went to middle- and south america :D

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And he didn't discover shit. He was a bloody wanker and we should all just forget about him

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

And he wasn't just an asshole by modern standards, but by the standards of his own time as well!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Everything north of the Darien Gap is considered NA.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

TIL Central America is considered a sub-region of North America

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

As a continent, yes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Look at it on a world map, one without border lines, and it's blindingly obvious. It's not a sub-region, it's part of a large land mass barely separated from a large land mass to the south.